Melbourne is capital of Victoria state, Australia and it is the second most popular city along with 4.1 million (as per 2011 reports) population. As it is one of the famous city in Australia, the working crowd seems to be higher compare to other cities. That opens up vacancy for nannies Melbourne where both parents are working. It results to searching of Melbourne nanny to look after and care give babies and young children. During busy schedule with work, it may be hard to allocate time together with children and take care them. This of course requires nanny for you.

Finding nanny in city like Melbourne is not hard as far as most of the people are advanced with technology and make ease the nanny search process using online nanny directories or newspaper ads or magazine ads or etc. Anyhow, there are people who feel difficulties or hard time on selecting the perfect nanny who adjusts herself with the kids and the family as well as on posting Melbourne nanny jobs. Let's discuss some useful tips to be noted to make your selection process easier at the same time to find out the BEST nanny in Melbourne. If you are looking for nanny jobs in Melbourne, this article may be too helpful on what your employer expect from you.

Before hiring or offering the job to nanny, be very clear about you requirements – It is better to take some time and list out it on a piece of paper. Explain your requirements, needs and wants to nanny very clearly to avoid vague and to make clear understanding about the job. Put all of your requirements in contract (Nanny Contract) – all terms and conditions in detail and get signed on the job offer. This kind of nanny contracts help a lot to clearly understand about the responsibilities of the nanny whom you are going to hire. Apart from that, these contracts ensure that there is no unpleasant situations between both parties as far as everything is very clear in the document.

To make a successful nanny-parent relationship, communication is very important. Other than having good communication, praising nannies and their children also strengthen the relationship among nanny, children and parents. Usually nannies work odd hours and they have to be very clear about the expectations and boundaries of their job and both parties should be comfortable with these. These things should be very clearly communicated in the nanny contract.  Usually unusual tasks to nannies or  the tasks which nanny does not agree during agreement on nanny contract may lead unhappy nanny and leads quick turnover. On the other hand, parents may be unhappy as there are  nannies who use parents' vehicle for nanny's personal things or go out without any permissions from parent or do unapproved purchases or invite nanny's guests to home and let them stay night or etc. These kind of actions of a nanny may clearly show that the nannies are out of contract terms and conditions. Usually nannies do not happy to discuss with their uncomfortable as they want to work still. But that may lead too poor nanny services. So, to avoid all these misunderstandings and conflicts in actions – Nanny contracts should be clearly explained and both parties should remember important bullet points of the agreement. That may lead to a pleasant environment for children.

Better nanny contract may contain below details :

Responsibilities of nanny
Expected disciplines from nannies
Working hours (Work schedule)
Salary details & Pay dates & Over time payments details
Benefits
Deductions (possible taxes, insurances and etc)
Your state's regulations on hiring nanny
Children indoor and outdoor activities
Overnight care expectations

And there are lot more to cover up in detail. Always make sure that both parties are happy about the contract and agree with the contract terms and conditions and will follow it up to have a pleasant environment for kids, parents and nanny.